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scarypezsanta

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Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 25

USB devices no longer seen after virtualbox upgrade

I was able to pass USB devices to my VMs before I upgraded to 6.0.4 r128164 from the repo. Now I cannot. For example I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VM with he USB controller enabled but when I click the USB icon on the bottom right hand side of the open VM window it says "No USB devices connected". I have the kernel modules installed and loaded and I am a member of the vboxusers group. I installed the new guest iso package and re-installed the guest additions on the VM from that as well. The output of 'VBoxManage showvminfo' is below. I tried to correct the problem by uninstalling virtualbox, the kernel modules and the extension pack, rebooting, reinstalling and rebooting again. I also deleted ~/.config/VirtualBox/ and created a VM from scratch but I saw the same issue.

Maybe I should have posted this to the vitualbox forums instead but I was wondering if other arch users are seeing the same behavior. Any suggestions?

Name:                        bionic-desk
Groups:                      /
Guest OS:                    Ubuntu (64-bit)
UUID:                        4ffa16f6-c197-410f-8c87-8bc40ae1d856
Config file:                 /home/name-redacted/vbox/bionic-desk/bionic-desk/bionic-desk.vbox
Snapshot folder:             /home/name-redacted/vbox/bionic-desk/bionic-desk/Snapshots
Log folder:                  /home/name-redacted/vbox/bionic-desk/bionic-desk/Logs
Hardware UUID:               4ffa16f6-c197-410f-8c87-8bc40ae1d856
Memory size                  7923MB
Page Fusion:                 disabled
VRAM size:                   128MB
CPU exec cap:                100%
HPET:                        disabled
CPUProfile:                  host
Chipset:                     piix3
Firmware:                    BIOS
Number of CPUs:              4
PAE:                         disabled
Long Mode:                   enabled
Triple Fault Reset:          disabled
APIC:                        enabled
X2APIC:                      enabled
Nested VT-x/AMD-V:           disabled
CPUID Portability Level:     0
CPUID overrides:             None
Boot menu mode:              message and menu
Boot Device 1:               Floppy
Boot Device 2:               DVD
Boot Device 3:               HardDisk
Boot Device 4:               Not Assigned
ACPI:                        enabled
IOAPIC:                      enabled
BIOS APIC mode:              APIC
Time offset:                 0ms
RTC:                         UTC
Hardw. virt.ext:             enabled
Nested Paging:               enabled
Large Pages:                 disabled
VT-x VPID:                   enabled
VT-x unr. exec.:             enabled
Paravirt. Provider:          Default
Effective Paravirt. Prov.:   KVM
State:                       running (since 2019-02-22T18:48:23.952000000)
Monitor count:               1
3D Acceleration:             disabled
2D Video Acceleration:       disabled
Teleporter Enabled:          disabled
Teleporter Port:             0
Teleporter Address:          
Teleporter Password:         
Tracing Enabled:             disabled
Allow Tracing to Access VM:  disabled
Tracing Configuration:       
Autostart Enabled:           disabled
Autostart Delay:             0
Default Frontend:            
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            SATA
Storage Controller Type (1):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      1
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
IDE (1, 0): Empty
SATA (0, 0): /media/blue/vbox/bionic-desk/bionic-desktop.vdi (UUID: 5ed573a9-0e7a-4419-9690-5cec8645cb9c)
NIC 1:                       MAC: 080027C0468A, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'net0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 2:                       disabled
NIC 3:                       disabled
NIC 4:                       disabled
NIC 5:                       disabled
NIC 6:                       disabled
NIC 7:                       disabled
NIC 8:                       disabled
Pointing Device:             USB Tablet
Keyboard Device:             PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:                      disabled
UART 2:                      disabled
UART 3:                      disabled
UART 4:                      disabled
LPT 1:                       disabled
LPT 2:                       disabled
Audio:                       enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: AC97, Codec: AD1980)
Audio playback:              disabled
Audio capture:               enabled
Clipboard Mode:              disabled
Drag and drop Mode:          disabled
Session name:                GUI/Qt
Video mode:                  800x600x32 at 0,0 enabled
VRDE:                        disabled
OHCI USB:                    enabled
EHCI USB:                    enabled
xHCI USB:                    disabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Bandwidth groups:  <none>

Shared folders:<none>

VRDE Connection:             not active
Clients so far:              0

Capturing:                   active
Capture audio:               not active
Capture screens:             0
Capture file:                /home/name-redacted/vbox/bionic-desk/bionic-desk/bionic-desk.webm
Capture dimensions:          1024x768
Capture rate:                512kbps
Capture FPS:                 25kbps
Capture options:             vc_enabled=true,ac_enabled=false,ac_profile=med

Guest:

Configured memory balloon size: 0MB
OS type:                     Ubuntu_64
Additions run level:         0

Guest Facilities:

No active facilities.